Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...function effectively. The fellowship men should be permitted to affiliate themselves with any department of the University, graduate or college, and they should be allowed to change from one department to another at reasonable intervals, or to participate in more than one at the same time. But to avoid useless dabbling as a result of this privilege, fellowships must be awarded to men who would not abuse their opportunities. This may be done by choosing men whose interest in some phase of journalism has been clearly established. Provision might also be made for traveling and visiting other universities where specific...
...Schulte's new Manhattan "specialty shops" are really an attempt to brighten up the old 5?-to-$1 idea. To avoid burning his fingers again, David Schulte is making the transition slowly, has imported Stanley Roth, slick merchandiser, from the Golden Rule Department Store in St. Paul, Minn., made him a vice president. Said Mr. Roth: "I think most persons will be surprised at the large number of things we can get into a relatively small store." Most persons who visited the sample Schulte store at Manhattan's 86th Street & Broadway were surprised. Mr. Roth had filled...
Last week, to avoid imputations of unhealthy prudery, NBC did broadcast a speech on the same topic by Dr. Morris Fishbein, spokesman and editor of the American Medical Association. The Fishbein speech, therefore, offered an example of what is now considered the proper phraseology in which social diseases may be discussed on the air. Excerpts...
...rules, rayon producers are ordered to label their goods specifically throughout the manufacturing and distributing process. If a scarf is part silk, but mostly rayon, it must be labeled "rayon-silk." If it is mostly silk it is to be labeled "silk-rayon." Makers who have sought to avoid the stigma that sometimes is attached to the name rayon by concocting trade and process names like Celanese, Bemberg and acetate may still use them, but must also label the goods as rayon. Sample: "Bemberg-rayon...
...milligrams of nicotine, if taken in one dose, are fatal. Anyone who smokes a package of cigarets a day breathes in 500 milligrams of nicotine every week. Whether this gradual dosage does harm may be debatable, but few are the smokers who would not leap at a chance to avoid nicotine as long as the method did not involve giving up smoking. On sale last week in United Cigar Stores, Liggett Drug Stores, Schulte Cigar Stores and many a hotel in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles was a device making such a boon to smokers available...